Physicians are doing exactly what their patients have been doing for years – Googling your illness. I don’t know how many times I’ve Googled my own symtpoms and have diagnosed myself with some rare form of fingernail cancer that only happens in third world tropics, ya know what I’m saying? I’ll never forget the day my mother called me to say that she’d been Googling the symptoms my father was having and afraid he had …
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On the road without a cell phone
I was talking with Chelle this morning. She was sharing her new cell phone number with me. We chatted a bit about life before cell phones – – having to use those things called Pay Phones when we were away from home. Remember pay phones? Heh. It reminded me of a job I had once. My title was “Nurse Liaison” – I worked for a hospital that specialized in post-op orthopedic rehabilitation. My job? We …
Emergency 911-XL
Being a health care worker, I am completely 100% behind this type of service: A Las Vegas company is putting a new extra-large ambulance into service to handle extra-large patients. American Medical Response called the $250,000 rig its bariatric unit. It bought it at the request of the Clark County Fire Department. The vehicle looks like a regular ambulance. But it’s extra-wide, and has a larger gurney, a winch and ramps capable of loading up …
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